Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend

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Movie
German title Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend
Original title Wyatt Earp
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 182 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Lawrence Kasdan
script Dan Gordon
Lawrence Kasdan
production Kevin Costner
Lawrence Kasdan
Jim Wilson
music James Newton Howard
camera Owen Roizman
cut Carol Littleton
occupation

Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend is a 1994 American western directed by Lawrence Kasdan and is about the gunslinger Wyatt Earp . Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid play the leading roles.

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Wyatt Earp is raised by his father, a caring but strict judge, to be a "man who believes in the law". His father instills in him the sentence: “Nothing is stronger than the bonds of blood, the rest are strangers”. While the Earp family moves to California , young Wyatt witnesses a shooting in which two men die in front of his eyes. Shortly thereafter, his father gave him a piece of advice on how to fight outlaws : "... strike first if you can." Wyatt then earns his living doing a variety of things for a while until he finally decides to go back to Arkansas to his father to go and study with him. He courted his great love, Urilla Sutherland, and finally married her. After she dies of typhoid , Wyatt becomes an alcoholic. As a completely rundown tramp, he finally ambushes a man and steals his horse. This leads to his arrest, but his father saves him from safe execution as a horse thief and enables him to escape from Arkansas. Wyatt then made his living hunting buffalo for a while. He meets Ed and Bat Masterson who work for him for a while. But Wyatt moves on and for a while he makes his living gambling until a coincidence leads to his becoming a deputy, a task he does skillfully. Eventually, Earp is asked to become the sheriff of Dodge City . He takes the job and, with the help of a group of men led by Ed and Bat Masterson, creates security and peace in the city. But the citizens of Dodge City find his style too harsh and Wyatt is eventually replaced by Ed Masterson. Wyatt leaves town and makes his way as a bounty hunter. He gets to know Doc Holliday . But the violent death of Ed Masterson ends the peace in Dodge City, whereupon Wyatt Earp returns to Dodge City to restore law and order.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films accused the film: "Little drama and too much weighty fatefulness strain your patience without the film's hero justifying so much profound persistence."

Awards

Owen Roizman was nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography in 1995 and for the American Society of Cinematographers Award . Kevin Costner and the producers received the Golden Raspberry in 1995 ; there were three other nominations for the Golden Raspberry, including for directing. The screenwriters won the Spur Award in 1994 .

Remarks

The film was shot in New Mexico , South Dakota and Port Angeles ( Washington ). It cost about $ 63 million and grossed $ 25 million at the US box office.

Originally, Costner was supposed to play the main role in the movie Tombstone , which shows largely identical conditions, but besides Wyatt Earp also focuses on other people (especially Doc Holliday) and covers a much shorter period overall. However, since Costner was dissatisfied with the script by Kevin Jarre , he left the project and was replaced by Kurt Russell ; instead he shot Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend , in which he was able to implement his ideas together with Lawrence Kasdan. Tomstone opened in theaters in December 1993, Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend followed in June 1994. In a direct comparison, however, audiences and critics preferred Tombstone , which on the one hand achieved higher revenues and received better reviews and to this day much higher Reviews on portals like IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wyatt Earp - The Life of a Legend. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Locations in the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com